Identifying Political Risk Management Strategies in International Construction Projects

Table 4

Results of the exploratory factor analysis.

Strategy	Communality	Item-to-total correlation	Component
			1	2	3	4	5	6
S23	0.640	0.590	0.676	—	—	—	—	—
S05	0.530	0.490	0.653	—	—	—	—	—
S17	0.575	0.572	0.617	—	—	—	—	—
S22	0.632	0.585	0.598	—	—	—	—	—
S18	0.565	0.482	0.541	—	—	—	—	—
S02	0.652	0.511	0.509	—	—	—	—	—
S06	0.730	0.579	—	0.683	—	—	—	—
S07	0.648	0.497	—	0.667	—	—	—	—
S24	0.667	0.612	—	0.617	—	—	—	—
S08	0.543	0.515	—	0.595	—	—	—	—
S09	0.621	0.611	—	0.509	—	—	—	—
S15	0.742	0.592	—	—	0.739	—	—	—
S26	0.679	0.516	—	—	0.670	—	—	—
S03	0.512	0.527	—	—	0.525	—	—	—
S10	0.479	0.542	—	—	0.507	—	—	—
S27	0.532	0.621	—	—	—	0.682	—	—
S25	0.697	0.629	—	—	—	0.672	—	—
S20	0.632	0.637	—	—	—	0.586	—	—
S19	0.581	0.589	—	—	—	0.547	—	—
S04	0.561	0.478	—	—	—	—	0.663	—
S01	0.548	0.551	—	—	—	—	0.567	—
S11	0.629	0.557	—	—	—	—	0.550	—
S16	0.611	0.538	—	—	—	—	—	0.631
S12	0.710	0.539	—	—	—	—	—	0.618
S21	0.579	0.571	—	—	—	—	—	0.522
S14	0.576	0.653	—	—	—	—	—	0. 502
Cronbach’s alpha			0.857	0.832	0.811	0.767	0.743	0.758
Eigenvalues			6.483	2.867	2.310	1.451	1.162	1.100
Variance (%)			15.233	13.587	11.155	10.817	9.265	8.150
Cumulative variance (%)			15.233	28.820	39.975	50.793	60.058	68.208

Note. Only loadings of 0.500 or above are shown. Extraction method: principal component analysis. Rotation method: varimax with Kaiser normalization. Rotation converged in 10 iterations.